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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Does it still count as the self-isolated homosexual if I’m hanging out with the cat?

Buster Platner

it’s always so embarrassing when Fancy Children try to pretend they’re the salt of the earth, but its extra embarrassing when those Fancy Children decide to complete their romp through the world of the common people with a cheeky working-class Nazi tattoo

so…Trump’s new strategy for launching regime change wars without getting Congressional authorization is to direct the DOJ to charge foreign leaders with criminal offences and then claim that the military operation is just “support” for the execution of a warrant by law enforcement?

Katrina Lenk “Johanna” Sweeney Todd

the five words that drive him WILD

Yeah the tattoo regs have always been worded like "Any tattoo that was sexist, racist, or anti-American is forbidden." and then we had stricter rules around visible ink. But because service members come from all walks of life there were books or posters with pics of what not to get.

Mind you, I don't believe a word of Platner's story. He knew what it was and he got it on purpose is my bet. But even if I somehow believed that lots of active duty white guys had no idea what imagery is racist, I know there's a fucking book or poster in their unit to tell them what not to do.

I once treated a guy with a massive back piece that was straight out of Geiger, think overlapping skulls in a mobius strip winding around a cross. Someone asked him if he planned to add flames and he said "No, that's KKK shit" and he was a white boy from Alabama. Come on now.

I served, you're absolutely full of shit. The poster or book with forbidden tattoos is older than either of us. And I was a combat medic, saw plenty of infantry with ink and none of it racist symbols. Because they wanted to stay in the military.

a few weeks ago there was one about cannibalism, though, which was less fun

my favourite from today is the person incoherently posting about how Theodore Herzl published the Talmud in 1897 to found Zionism and that the “Zionist Talmud” hijacked “Judaic Judaism” which only involves the Torah.

the internet is full of people confidently declaring so many things that they think the Talmud says and how it proves Jews are evil and each one is more ridiculous than the last.

I just don’t know what that has to do with the Talmud, which was compiled from the 3rd to 6th centuries, hundreds of years earlier.

How Germany’s unusual approach to fighting antisemitism is ensnaring Jews who are critical of Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jewish critics of the Israeli government say they will be punished by a proposed ban on pro-Palestinian slogans.

"According to data compiled by Diaspora Alliance, Jews were involved in 25% of the performances, exhibits and artistic expressions canceled in 2023 for allegations of antisemitism — despite making up less than 1% of the country’s population." www.jta.org/2026/03/04/g...

a surprising number of gentiles online claim that “real” Jews are anti-Zionist and only follow the Torah, whereas “fake” Jews are Zionists who also follow the Talmud and…I’m curious what they think the Talmud is & why this person seems to think Herzl wrote the Talmud in 1897

as someone very wise once said:

(obviously I am proud and thankful that Anthony and the entire team were able to make a cape comic that great and that queer for as long as they did and the award is incredibly well-deserved, but if Marvel wanted pure praise unsullied by snide queer sniping, they could have let them land the plane)

These Queer Comics Got GLAAD Award Noms, But Marvel Already Canceled Them Marvel hasn't been doing a marvelous job with their queer characters.

Does it count as progress if queer Marvel comics used to get nominated for GLAAD awards after Marvel prematurely cancelled them and now they *win* the awards post-cancellation?

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Russian drones damaged a pipeline in Ukraine that carries oil from Russia to Hungary. Ukraine can’t repair it safely due to Russia constantly bombing Ukraine. so, naturally, Hungary blames Ukraine, detained Ukrainian bank employees & seized the money the bank was transporting to Austria.

fwiw it’s been over a day since multiple people have done actual research that pretty conclusively disproves Grim’s claim that Platner’s wife is Jewish, and the only source anyone has found for Grim’s claim is Peter fucking Brimelow, and Grim still hasn’t corrected or commented.

I have now traced the man who gave Amy her "Gertner" surname. He was cremated, a non Jewish burial, and is described on this obituary page as an "Aquinas brother." She appears to have no Jewish ancestry whatsoever to a level that is almost rare to be able to prove. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

I have also traced Amy's family back to England. They're actually a fairly well known clan in Maine that has their own cemetery - Seaview. It's almost rare in America to so definitively be able to see someone isn't Jewish. www.geni.com/people/John-...

Here you can find Amy and her parents on the Kalloch family tree database tracing their roots back to Northern Ireland. kalloch.org/gedpage/fam04302.htm

*all of this is very simple research that took me a few minutes*

Lucy Crabtree - Thursday January 28, 2016 HOPE - Lucy Claire Crabtree, known to many as ‘Grammie Lucy’, passed away peacefully at her home, January 28th, 2016, fulfilling one of her life wishes, to die at home. Born in Lawrence, MA, Ap...

Platner's wife's grandma was "a beautiful, generous person with a strong love and faith in God, she was a member of the South Hope Christian Church."

RIP Lucy Claire Crabtree. memorials.bchfh.com/Crabtree-Luc...

Here's some actual reporting to go with Ryan's reflexive Platner defense: "Gertner sat at her mother’s dining table in the house she’d grown up in, next to a roaring fire, admiring the Christmas tree." www.midcoastvillager.com/news/health/...

Mhm. And I think it’s a bad sign for the direction of US politics over the next decade that this is a relatively logical political calculus.

Obviously, Netanyahu and Israel suck. But people acting like Donald Trump is a practical even-tempered peacemaker who decided to bomb Iran because he was led astray and acting like America wasn’t planning this for *months* are being ridiculous.